Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 10:06:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Blancato <tblan-AT-telerama.lm.com>
Subject: RE: Oedipal issues




I think it's best not thought of as a line at all. The line is a
reduction. Death, for us, is irreducibly a matter of *meaning* and
understanding in/for which the schema of the line participates on rarely
without problematic abstraction.

As for the "death of the father", like so many different themes which
surface here and there on the "left side of things" (I guess...), it is a
classic case of the failure to grasp the issue of (non)violence: violent
thought/action kills the father, nonviolent thoughtaction approaches the
problem of the *tyrant*, leaving *paternality* intact, albeit minus its
*dominance*. It is a serious failing to attach *paternalism* as such,
since there are, after all, fathers. Better to say, "the death of the
tyrant".

Tom B.


On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, M.Eldred_artefact wrote:

> Cologne, 17 August 1996
>
> Iain has written a fascinating post about Oedipus, death and patricide, ending
> by making a connection with "doing violence to the father" (Sophist 241d),
> Parmenides and his maintaining that "not only what is non-being is in a certain
> way but also that what is being conversely is in some way not being" (241d).
> ("being" here verbally-participially.)
>
> I cannot do justice to Iain's post at the moment and off the cuff, but it seems
> there are problems of demarcation or delimitation between being and non-being.
> Does Heidegger return to the question of being in its de-limit-ation? Does
> metaphysics attempt to draw the line? Does the thinking of being bring the line
> into question? Could this mean, as one of its consequences, that the line
> between life and death could become osmotic?
>
> Heidegger's voluminous early 'Sophistes' lectures (GA 19), which I have not yet
> read, could help here, perhaps.
>
> Chaire apeiron,
> Michael
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